Hello,
I had a working laptop with xorg 1.7 using hal; including usb mouse
(left hand swapped buttons), synaptics for a mouse pad, hotplug
monitors in a virtual screen, etc. For this to work I had a
hand-configured xorg.conf file and additional hal policy
configurations.
I have just updated xorg to 1.9.4 with USE -hal and removed hal in
this order (also needed to remove hal from the default run level). I
tried startx using the existing xorg.conf and X does not start
correctly, I have no mouse and a frozen screen (no keyboard) with the
arrow cursor placed in the middle of the screen. I also tried to start
X without an xorg.conf; same problem.
Here are the outputs of some commands:
emerge --info
Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.4,
glibc-2.11.2.-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
emerge -pv --newuse --update --tree --with-bdeps=y world
Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
emerge --depclean -vp
Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
the following required packages not being installed:
sys-apps/hal pulled in by:
x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.1
In make.conf I have:
USE="-hal ...."
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"
VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
Thanks for your help.
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Valmor
